About Luke Ford

About Luke Ford

The person who interviewed the two women and provided much of the material for the website is Luke Ford. Luke Ford is both a hard core pornographer and a completely discredited and dis-reputable gossip columnist for the pornography industry. It is difficult to know if some of the distortions and lies are from the sources themselves or from Luke Ford. In either event, such extreme forms of name rape are beyond reprehensible.

The following information is from Wikipedia. The information from Wikipedia is not always accurate so if anyone including Mr. Ford would like to send any corrections of inaccurate information we will be glad to ammend.

Ford studied economics at UCLA but did not graduate. Instead, he worked as an investigative journalist for southern California newspapers and at a radio station. In 1995, he became intrigued with the lack of journalistic coverage of the pornography industry, and started to write a book, which would become A History of X.

In January 1996, after researching porn for a year, Ford wrote, produced, directed, and acted in What Women Want, a pornographic video, not related to the Mel Gibson movie of the same name. It was not a success.[1]

In 1997, Ford started his pornography gossip web site, LukeFord.com. It was criticised for being badly organized, but contained a large amount of information; Ford would take a tape recorder with him nearly wherever he went, and transcribed many conversations.

Ford exposed a 1998 HIV outbreak which infected an indeterminate number of actors (including Tricia Devereaux, Brooke Ashley and Kimberly Jade) who had been working with actor Marc Wallice.[3] Ashley eventually sued Wallice, claiming that she had been infected on the set of The World’s Biggest Anal Gangbang.

Discretion has never been his strong suit. In Ford’s own words: “I’m not a businessman. I’m not a conventional journalist. I’m a story teller/entertainer/lunatic.”[4] Prominent porn stars such as Asia Carrera and Brandy Alexandre have criticised errors and inaccuracy on his the site. But its impact was undeniable, and he was referred to as the Matt Drudge of porn.[3]

Ford was sued for defamation multiple times by people in the porn industry, including by RJB Telecom, whom he (as well as the Federal Trade Commission) accused of dishonesty; Christi Lake, whom he mislabeled in a bestiality photo; and Laurie Holmes (widow of John Holmes), for accusations of prostitution on the set. Ford has said that he has been sued five times to date: one suit was dropped, another was thrown out, another was settled when his insurance company paid $100,000, and the last two were settled when he removed some of his statements without making a retraction.[5] Wired magazine called him “The Most Hated Man in Web Porn”.[4] He was even physically assaulted by Mike Albo, an editor for Hustler.[6]

In August 2001, after urgings of his rabbi, Ford sold his main web site, LukeFord.com, to Netvideogirls.com for $25,000, and created lukeford.net, which avoided pornography, and focused more on Jewish issues. One year later, after nearly going broke, he returned to his pornographic roots by starting lukeisback.com, with many of his old archives.[7]

The Lukeford.com site is currently headed by Taylor Rain with most day to day blogging done by former owner Scott Fayner. It publishes gossip that is friendlier to the porn industry.

AVN Hall of Famer Bill Margold has said that “Luke Ford is exactly what we deserve… Luke’s not really a blogger as much as is an Internet journalist”.[7]

On October 23, 2007, Ford announced he had sold lukeisback.com and its contents for an undisclosed sum to an undisclosed party.[8] “Any writing I do on the porn industry from now on will be for publications with no porn advertising,” Ford said. All entries since the sale have been by the site’s new owners.

Luke Ford is a Los Angeles-based individual who represents himself to others as a “freelance journalist.” For several years, he has been working closely with Vicki Polin (the woman who claimed on Oprah in 1989 to be part of a national satanic Jewish cult in which she sacrificed babies, a claim she seems to stand by), posting interviews and defamatory material about Marc Gafni on the world wide web. The material is malicious, factually inaccurate, and libelous. This website will not dignify Ford’s internet postings about Marc Gafni with specific responses because the lies are too numerous and too blatant to deal with. Following is material from third party sources that interested parties can use to determine for themselves whether Luke Ford’s writings should be trusted as factual.

Is Luke Ford a journalist? He is not a “journalist” in the accepted sense of the word. He runs a web site that is devoted to chronicling the pornographic film industry. He has had a book published, a history of pornographic films. He is quoted in news stories as saying that his primary source of income is advertising from pornographers that runs on his web site. He has made and acted in pornographic films. All of this however would not by itself disqualify him from being a honest broker of information.

Is Luke Ford a journalist? He has disavowed that title. In an interview published in The Village Voice (March 9, 1999) he said, “I don’t claim on my news pages that they’re journalism. There is an element of journalism. But there is a much bigger talk-show element. People call me up, and they tell me something and I run it. An hour later or three days later, people will write and tell me more about it, and I will run that. It’s more of a stream rather than filing one story. I’ve almost got a self-writing Web page. I’ve got people who read it all the time and they constantly e-mail me. I just cut and paste.”

Does Luke Ford care about the accuracy of what he puts on his web site? In the Village Voice article, he states, in response to the question, “Do you vet your stories?”: It depends on the importance of the story. If one porner says that another porner sticks bananas up his ass, I will quote that. I don’t really care… If someone will put their name on it, I will pretty much run anything. (emphasis added.)

Also in 1999, Ford told the New Times Los Angeles, “I never publish anything I know to be false unless I am quoting somebody…sometimes I will insert the truth in brackets and sometimes I will not.” The same article said, “And sometimes his misinformation comes in king-sized doses. Last year Ford ran a story/rumor stating incorrectly that retired actress Kaithlyn Ashley was infected with HIV. It was not a case of the deadly virus but a case of a deadly lack of fact-checking.”

Even by the extraordinarily low standards of the pornographic film industry, Luke Ford is found lacking in honesty. The New Times story also says: “‘He lives for negative attention,’ says Mike Albo, executive editor of Hustler Erotic Video Guide. ‘He plagiarizes material, he lies, he’s probably the most unscrupulous person masquerading as a journalist I’ve ever had the misfortune to run into.'”

How does Luke Ford conduct himself personally? See his own words on his website (Warning: sexually explicit material!). See his self-description where he describes a sexual encounter with a porn star while involved in making a porn movie.

Also, in its July 31, 2001 issue, Jerusalem Report wrote: “Ford covers the pornographic film industry. He interviews performers, producers and distributors; he reports back from shooting sets and trade shows and awards ceremonies; he hangs out with people from the business to elicit the latest ‘dirt’… Ford, however, is not your everyday journalist. In fact, some of his philosophical leanings would be hard for anyone to swallow: He often cites the writings of a rabid American neo-Nazi, William Pierce, and views liberalism, communism, socialism, feminism and Freudianism as largely Jewish-instigated afflictions every bit as perfidious as the field he covers.” In the same article, Ford states, “Nazism is my own favorite kind of pornography. I’d say I find myself agreeing with anywhere from 50 to 80 percent of what Dr. Pierce has to say.”

What is the primary source of income for Luke Ford? In the same Jerusalem Report article, Ford stated, “Yes, my website is sponsored by porn companies. So yes, I do make money from porn. That is very troubling from a Jewish perspective. I have no answer to that.” (Note: Ford claims to have converted from Christianity to Judaism in 1992.)

Does Luke Ford engage in spreading malicious gossip? From the New Times article: “‘The biggest conflict I’ve been having is in the area of gossip,’ he says. ‘Judaism is very strict. The Torah says do not go about as a tale-bearer. And that’s what I’m doing for a living.'”